A leather-bound, handwritten Hebrew Bible believed to be around 1,100 years old sold for $38.1 million (€35.1 million) in New York, auction house Sotheby’s said on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon ...

"contains almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible," making it the most complete early copy to exist, according to Sotheby's. It's known as the Codex Sassoon — named after its former owner ...

The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m (£30.6m), becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is thought to have been ...

Last year, a Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old was sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York. The Codex Sassoon, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century, was described as ...

ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv is expecting some 10,000 visitors to see the Codex Sassoon The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible is on display in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before ...

Sotheby's said the Codex Sassoon could exceed the sale price of a first printing of the US constitution, which sold for $43 million in November 2021. The ancient Hebrew Bible contains notes which ...

Ecclesiasticus is a religious work, written in Hebrew in the second century BCE by the Jewish scribe ... Hart (1876–1952) is on the Greek text of Ecclesiasticus from a fourteenth-century codex, ...

This incomplete, early twentieth-century edition was one of the first modern attempts to bring textual criticism to bear on the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures ... the running ...